Impact and Decision Markets for Conditional Asset Pricing

Summary

The document describes two proposed extensions to event prediction markets. Impact Markets would let participants trade an asset at a price conditional on a specified event, aiming to reveal how the market values an asset in that scenario and to offer more direct hedging than combining an event bet with a separate asset position. The article argues this could reduce each trader’s need to estimate event-to-asset correlations independently, while leaving them exposed to the accuracy of market prices and liquidity.

Key ideas

• Prediction markets estimate whether events occur, while Impact Markets aim to price assets conditional on those events.
• Conditional trades could combine event exposure and asset pricing in one position, potentially reducing basis risk.
• Market quotes may aggregate competing views about event and asset relationships, but the quoted conditional price can still be wrong.
• Decision Markets use conditional market valuations to select organizational actions according to an objective such as token value.
• Decision Markets depend on the traded asset being economically connected to the decision’s intended outcome.

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